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this is a big foreign policy swing for governor romney. he's in israel today, giving a speech later today. how much does foreign policy count? >> it hasn't counted very much yet but of course we still have 100 days left to the election and, anything can happen. will israel strike iran, that is something we're talking about, how would that affect it or, that -- different things that are happening in the middle east, could something big happen in the next 100 days? we have yet to see that and it is a long time left and something could happen and now, of course the economy will be more important than foreign policy unless something happens abroad. >> jamie: and governor romney has chosen to make the trip now to meet with benjamin netanyahu, to meet the people of israel and have something to say about iran, forceful comments from what we have seen so far, at the same time, right now, president obama's campaign has more than a thousand, i believe more than 2,000 campaign events going on, fund-raising and such, right now. so whose time do you th
this is a big foreign policy swing for governor romney. he's in israel today, giving a speech later today. how much does foreign policy count? >> it hasn't counted very much yet but of course we still have 100 days left to the election and, anything can happen. will israel strike iran, that is something we're talking about, how would that affect it or, that -- different things that are happening in the middle east, could something big happen in the next 100 days? we have yet to see that...
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today it is all about foreign policy. mitt romney's foreign policy trip was this summer. do you remember it? romn romney's campaign is hoping you will forget about a lot of widely criticized missteps and instead focus on the criticism that he is getting ready just in the next few moments to level at president obama. over these countries on your screen, and the escalating violence and the tensions right across the arab world, these images, essentially layout romney's foreign policy speech at a glance. that includes the terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. you can expect that romney will jab at that potential foreign policy achilles heel for president obama. you're about to hear it directly from romney himself. we go to live picture once again. we're waiting on the governor at the virginia military institute. he likely back stage getting ready to take the stage at any moment which is why we also have all of our producers and our reporters around the world at cnn waiting and watching this alongside of you to bring you the context and the perspective. that's wo
today it is all about foreign policy. mitt romney's foreign policy trip was this summer. do you remember it? romn romney's campaign is hoping you will forget about a lot of widely criticized missteps and instead focus on the criticism that he is getting ready just in the next few moments to level at president obama. over these countries on your screen, and the escalating violence and the tensions right across the arab world, these images, essentially layout romney's foreign policy speech at a...
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romney. i don't think it will be reagan/carter. i'm happy the administration has moved away from an early mcgovern-ite view of the world to a more centrist, left centrist foreign policy. i still worry about a certain aspect of the foreign policy quite a bit and the defense cuts. i think a republican administration with mitt romney as president and joe lieberman as secretary of state would be a slightly better foreign policy. not slightly, it would be a better foreign policy. the second term is different from the first term. he has come back -- let's not kid ourselves. he has come back to the center partly because of the political pressure, because of concerns about the 2012 elections. it's not just a republican ta talking point to say he was overheard saying medvedev, once my last election is over, i will have more flexibility. that is a legitimate question for people to ask as they think about who to vote for this november. >> we're merging into the closing statements in some sense, bill, i
romney. i don't think it will be reagan/carter. i'm happy the administration has moved away from an early mcgovern-ite view of the world to a more centrist, left centrist foreign policy. i still worry about a certain aspect of the foreign policy quite a bit and the defense cuts. i think a republican administration with mitt romney as president and joe lieberman as secretary of state would be a slightly better foreign policy. not slightly, it would be a better foreign policy. the second term is...
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back from his foreign policy tour, mitt romney returnst to the campaign trail on saturday. romney helped fuel speculation that a pick might be announced soon when his campaign said they'll release the name through a smart phone app. >> before announcing his choice, romney has some business to wrap up from his foreign policy trip. >> reporter: in an ad for the national review, romney defends his statement that culture explains the economic differences between israel and the palestinian people. he wrote economic freedom is the only force that has succeeded in lifting people out of poverty. many palestinians were not happy with romney's comments. >> mr. romney's knowledge of our economy is breeching potential for the syrian economy. >> reporter: both candidates are now focused on the three-month stretch to the election. and the obama campaign also announced an ad. if you sign up, expect to be hit up. also, the obama campaign has announced its choice for keynote speaker for the democratic national convention. >> susan in washington this morning, susan, thank you so much. >>> in
back from his foreign policy tour, mitt romney returnst to the campaign trail on saturday. romney helped fuel speculation that a pick might be announced soon when his campaign said they'll release the name through a smart phone app. >> before announcing his choice, romney has some business to wrap up from his foreign policy trip. >> reporter: in an ad for the national review, romney defends his statement that culture explains the economic differences between israel and the...
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mitt romney is mixing up a whole bunch of ideas. the 47% who do not pay income tax which is a result of reagan, bush, and it bush jr. tax policies. half the population has no stake in income tax rate. it is a huge issue but not the way you want to talk about it. there is this culture of dependency which the obama administration is increasing in changing the welfare to work requirements. that is an issue. this way, he has an argument but he has to work his way out of a paper bag first. >> a couple of polls this week. nbc wall street journal poll. obama does not do well with foreign policy. what do these numbers tell you? >> there is a 19% one where obama will help the middle class more than mitt romney. that is a huge gap exacerbated by the 47%. mitt romney can get the conversation back to the economy and maybe can be more specific. but what he has to do is have a personality transplant said the middle class can identify with him. >> here is a number that would scare me. 43% now agree that each would do equally well on the economy. >
mitt romney is mixing up a whole bunch of ideas. the 47% who do not pay income tax which is a result of reagan, bush, and it bush jr. tax policies. half the population has no stake in income tax rate. it is a huge issue but not the way you want to talk about it. there is this culture of dependency which the obama administration is increasing in changing the welfare to work requirements. that is an issue. this way, he has an argument but he has to work his way out of a paper bag first. >>...
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and i think romney is -- appear s to be taking advice to get a foreign policy critique going. what's interesting is that obama has tried to pair it back saying all these people on the complain a -- campaign are complaining about what i'm doing. why don't you tell me what you plan to do? voters don't like iran, certainly don't the idea of iran having a bomb. if it comes to if i'm elected promise, i promise we will have a war with iran, that's a different political calculation. so, there's lots of, again, hand waving and table pounding and you're apologizing for america and all this sort of atmospheric stuff. what obama appears to want to do is have a precise policy discussion. so war then? i think that's how he thinks he can pair it back. whether it that that will work, i don't know. >> right there and then i'll get some in the back. it's hard for me to see in the new auditorium. these lights are really bright. >> they are. >> milton hoenig, international center for terrorism studies. in going for a diplomatic solution, how do you deal with the iaea's persistent demand for answ
and i think romney is -- appear s to be taking advice to get a foreign policy critique going. what's interesting is that obama has tried to pair it back saying all these people on the complain a -- campaign are complaining about what i'm doing. why don't you tell me what you plan to do? voters don't like iran, certainly don't the idea of iran having a bomb. if it comes to if i'm elected promise, i promise we will have a war with iran, that's a different political calculation. so, there's lots...
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you are a foreign policy to mitt romney. he is not doing so well. >> this is not about polls or politics. there are clear differences between barack obama and mitt romney on a range of national security and foreign policy issues. governor romney feels strongly about it. he believes that america's position in the world is weaker today than january of 2009. if you look at events over the last few days, they il lut straight how much day os there is in themile east and the world the government is going to have a discussion with the president. >> romney will get classified national security briefings from the administration starting next week. >> i am not going to comment on the briefings. it is a tradition for the nominees, the vice presidential and presidential nominees to receive classified briefings. >> once they are the official nominees. when i met with mitt romney in jerusalem, he told me he was looking forward to getting those briefings. >>> president obama took a stern note out on the campaign trail today. >> we see on o
you are a foreign policy to mitt romney. he is not doing so well. >> this is not about polls or politics. there are clear differences between barack obama and mitt romney on a range of national security and foreign policy issues. governor romney feels strongly about it. he believes that america's position in the world is weaker today than january of 2009. if you look at events over the last few days, they il lut straight how much day os there is in themile east and the world the...
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romney is talking about national security energy policy. you have to use every form of fossil fuel to make that happen. and it can't be domestic. it's got to be all north america. so i think those make sense. west port innovations, wprt, those would make these engines that he could use. say romney wins, he gets executive order 13514. post office, from now on we're using truck that use westport engines. >> if we were to see an obama reelection, does this go off the table? are you just looking at green energy? or do you focus on some of these natural gas plays. >> hillary clinton gave a fantastic, under-noticed speech in georgetown last week. she's talking about the notion that the democrats have to start thinking were independent energy. but, again, they immediately took solar as part of it. it is much more difficult to make a coal thesis. they're not adverse to natural gas. and i think if you read the sub text of secretary clinton's speech, you could see natural gas be a winner, but never coal. >> we all know romney wants to be aggressive o
romney is talking about national security energy policy. you have to use every form of fossil fuel to make that happen. and it can't be domestic. it's got to be all north america. so i think those make sense. west port innovations, wprt, those would make these engines that he could use. say romney wins, he gets executive order 13514. post office, from now on we're using truck that use westport engines. >> if we were to see an obama reelection, does this go off the table? are you just...
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look at romney's policy. he supports as david axelrod points out the paul ryan budget to cut funding to help low income women and children. and said that he would get rid of planned parent -- federal funding . in addition to abortions and those are controversial. planned parenthood provides 770,000 tac test. and breast examines and four million tests for std's. how is he looking out for women. >> guest: anyone who saw the controversy for planned parenthood and komen knows they get the lions share of critics. but we are talking about funding. people want to give to that charity for the purpose that is a noble thing to do. federal funding of abortion is not a noble thing to do. and defunding is not the same thing. 92 you have the amendment. let me say the hyatt amendment that said no federal funding for abortion . the federal government gave money for planned parenthood. >> guest: people can disagree with that, but it is not fair to say not having federal funding for planned parenthood is defunding planned pare
look at romney's policy. he supports as david axelrod points out the paul ryan budget to cut funding to help low income women and children. and said that he would get rid of planned parent -- federal funding . in addition to abortions and those are controversial. planned parenthood provides 770,000 tac test. and breast examines and four million tests for std's. how is he looking out for women. >> guest: anyone who saw the controversy for planned parenthood and komen knows they get the...
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president romney's policies might. of course, the rnc seized on this and said in a tweet director tim miller said new obama graphic concede taz basic government's role as taking care of people from cradle to grave. yea, government. >> it's a little offensive honest as a woman to see here is a woman at every step of her life. we can take care of her nobody worry i know that's not what they're trying to say. >> why can't it be jules? >> a lot of women found this pretty effective in terms of articulating the differentiation that you believe that government is an engine of opportunity. they can offer you opportunities that they can level a playing field at every stage of your life. particularly important with young people who sometimes don't feel that the government is relative to them and to their lives. i think for that constituency, this does a great job of communicating the core message into this was speaking the language of the internet in a certain way. i think that's what both campaigns are figuring out right now, t
president romney's policies might. of course, the rnc seized on this and said in a tweet director tim miller said new obama graphic concede taz basic government's role as taking care of people from cradle to grave. yea, government. >> it's a little offensive honest as a woman to see here is a woman at every step of her life. we can take care of her nobody worry i know that's not what they're trying to say. >> why can't it be jules? >> a lot of women found this pretty effective...
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we don't know what romney really thinks about foreign policy. but when i read a couple of speeches he's given on foreign policy. and you strip away from the rhetoric, i find it indistinguishable from the above administration. >> i want to pick up what is in your paper, the discussion of how -- excuse me, the discussion of these issues on the campaign trail actually affects the deeper things going on. the negotiations and the conversations with foreign nations and how it affects those relationships. >> sure. thank you, isaac. i will pick up i think from what bruce has said. and my co-author, joe michael arnold and i are in the category that ben mentioned at the outset. we couldn't find much to dispute in bruce and his colleague's piece. but we wanted to focus in on a couple of issues. notably the one that bruce just mentioned. and what bruce just said is essentially good news. if you extrapolate forward from the substantive overlap between what is emerging as a romney platform on foreign policy. and the actual foreign policy of the obama administ
we don't know what romney really thinks about foreign policy. but when i read a couple of speeches he's given on foreign policy. and you strip away from the rhetoric, i find it indistinguishable from the above administration. >> i want to pick up what is in your paper, the discussion of how -- excuse me, the discussion of these issues on the campaign trail actually affects the deeper things going on. the negotiations and the conversations with foreign nations and how it affects those...
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foreign policy was to be a slam dunk between getting osama bin laden to the fact that mitt romney has stumbles on the one big overseas trip. you can see in recent weeks this has taken a turn. our latest polling in ohio, for example, who do you trust better to handle foreign policy? the president took a dip from september to now because of the terror attack, from 53 percent to 49 percent and mitt romney going up two points. in florida, the president dipped from 52 percent to 47 percent, and mitt romney rising from 43 percent to 46 percent in the sunshine state. and senator graham said it is all about the terror attack. >> what happened in benghazi is a case study in failure at every phase, before, during and after. what they did after the attack is, i think, absolutely unacceptable. they tried to confuse, delay, and deny, and create a narrative it was a spontaneous event. it was not. >>reporter: republicans have focused the attacks on libya, there is a host of other global hot spots that will come up from iran to syria the future of russia and china. this could cover the gamut. >>shepa
foreign policy was to be a slam dunk between getting osama bin laden to the fact that mitt romney has stumbles on the one big overseas trip. you can see in recent weeks this has taken a turn. our latest polling in ohio, for example, who do you trust better to handle foreign policy? the president took a dip from september to now because of the terror attack, from 53 percent to 49 percent and mitt romney going up two points. in florida, the president dipped from 52 percent to 47 percent, and mitt...
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by a statement sympathizing for those who have members -- have embraced our embassy. >> it governor romney has a tendency to shoot first and came later. as president, you cannot do that. >> the american embassy said they condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of moslems. -- of muslims. at 10:15 a.m., a group gathered outside of the cairo embassy. they scaled a wall and pulled down the american flag. at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, a gunman attacked the american consulate in benghazi resulting in including the ambassador, christopher stevens. >> this should shock people of all faiths around the world. >> at 10:09 p.m. our time, romney issued a statement saying it it was disgraceful the obama 's administration what -- not was to condemn attacks but sympathize with those who made the attacks. they quoted the obama administration saying the statement was not cleared by washington and does not reflect the views of the united states government. jack tapper recorded the same statement on abc news. they said romney's political faux pas was to hurt the pun
by a statement sympathizing for those who have members -- have embraced our embassy. >> it governor romney has a tendency to shoot first and came later. as president, you cannot do that. >> the american embassy said they condemn the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of moslems. -- of muslims. at 10:15 a.m., a group gathered outside of the cairo embassy. they scaled a wall and pulled down the american flag. at 4:00 p.m. eastern time, a gunman...
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i noted in the news this morning that mitt romney is starting to turn to the obama administration and focus its critique on its foreign policy, which is a bit like pee wee herman challenging mike tyson, but i would appreciate your assessments. >> sure. president obama said something very sensible. i forget whether it was in his -- i think it was in his speech to the apec convention where he pointed out that the only way you can actually get a country to not build nuclear weapons is if the leadership of that country decides not to build nuclear weapons, that there's no other permanent way to stop nuclear proliferation. i thought that was a really key point. so he's basically saying we have sanctions. we have other tools, but ultimately it's going to have to be a decision of the iranian government. he was saying, in effect, there was no military solution to the iranian nuclear program even though he insists all options remain on the table. i think that's very useful. we've seen certainly mitt romney and others apart from ron paul beating the drums for an even more aggressive posture tow
i noted in the news this morning that mitt romney is starting to turn to the obama administration and focus its critique on its foreign policy, which is a bit like pee wee herman challenging mike tyson, but i would appreciate your assessments. >> sure. president obama said something very sensible. i forget whether it was in his -- i think it was in his speech to the apec convention where he pointed out that the only way you can actually get a country to not build nuclear weapons is if the...
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what is fact, what is fiction in mitt romney's foreign policy? >> let me just say first ed that i've never in my some 68 years on this earth witnessed any political candidate for the presidency of the united states. move so swiftly from his speech to, as it were, to the right wing of his party, in this case the republican party to the center where he is trying to attract the majority of americans and change his views so stunningly. you pointed it out. but it is utterly unbelievable to me as a republican that we could have such extremes in the party and have someone who would try to address both of them and win the white house. >> would mitt romney take us to war against iran? >> i don't know, because i don't know what his policy is, ed. i think his policy from what i've heard and what i've talked to some of his advisors about is almost identical with president obama's but in order to establish some kind of gap between them web seems to be saying things that would indicate, yes, he would take us to war yet again in western asia. >> romney talked a
what is fact, what is fiction in mitt romney's foreign policy? >> let me just say first ed that i've never in my some 68 years on this earth witnessed any political candidate for the presidency of the united states. move so swiftly from his speech to, as it were, to the right wing of his party, in this case the republican party to the center where he is trying to attract the majority of americans and change his views so stunningly. you pointed it out. but it is utterly unbelievable to me...
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the romney campaign is basically -- on foreign policy is divided into two camps. there are people in boston at headquarters, then dozens of advisors in d.c. are filing policy papers and hoping some of it will rise to the level of the political leadership of the campaign. they don't necessarily communicate that well and don't necessarily agree on priorities. so after i wrote the article exposing the fact that nobody knew what romney's afghanistan policy is, they clarified it and said he basically agrees with the 2014 timeline, basically agrees with the obama administration's policy, but he would have done it differently. that's where we are. now, inside the romney campaign, the two top advisors in afghanistan totally disagree about what should be done in afghanistan. so you've got a d.c./boston split, a split inside d.c. and a split inside the republican party. this is all part of the narrative of listen, let's not commit ourselves to any policy that's going to force us to commit to longer troop presences, that the u.s. public is weary of, or negotiation with the t
the romney campaign is basically -- on foreign policy is divided into two camps. there are people in boston at headquarters, then dozens of advisors in d.c. are filing policy papers and hoping some of it will rise to the level of the political leadership of the campaign. they don't necessarily communicate that well and don't necessarily agree on priorities. so after i wrote the article exposing the fact that nobody knew what romney's afghanistan policy is, they clarified it and said he...
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it was a mistake for mitt romney to use this as a political thing during the campaign. i think foreign policy should be bipartisan to the extent that is possible, and in a time of tragedy, americans need to rally around -- rally together and not try to use it for political, partisan purposes. we need to dissect it, see what happened and make sure it never happens again. there were recommendations that were made, and secretary clinton accepts all of them. we have to make sure that our diplomats or in places all around the world -- some of the places are very dangerous -- that they are protected. and congress has to do its part. i am troubled that the house has consistently lowballed the monies for diplomatic security around the world and has constantly lowballed anything to do with diplomacy around the world. monies that have come out after negotiations between house and senate -- usually the senate had a higher amount of money. but the money that was agreed upon for both was much lower than had been requested. that is troubling. if congress is going to point the finger,
it was a mistake for mitt romney to use this as a political thing during the campaign. i think foreign policy should be bipartisan to the extent that is possible, and in a time of tragedy, americans need to rally around -- rally together and not try to use it for political, partisan purposes. we need to dissect it, see what happened and make sure it never happens again. there were recommendations that were made, and secretary clinton accepts all of them. we have to make sure that our diplomats...
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of governor romney and really about the approach and the policy and just in the previews i have heard a lot of the rhetoric is a little bit different but the underlying policies are very similar. i mean, the kinds of things i think the governor will recommend sound like things that are already happening and continuously hearing governor talk he doesn't seem to understand or speak to, you know, with china. it is not just currency manipulation and trade to worry about or deal with china on. it's also china involved in what's happening in the middle east. they're involved in other parts of the world so these relationships are very -- they're multilayered and they affect policy in many different places so i don't think we'll hear that level of detail of governor romney and the president just fine. >> susan, talk about the rhetoric that karen brings up. foreign policy certainly fair game topics of three debates. the vice presidential, two remaining presidential debates. when's the strategy behind today's speech from mitt romney? is he laying a pillar, a foundation of his campaign that may
of governor romney and really about the approach and the policy and just in the previews i have heard a lot of the rhetoric is a little bit different but the underlying policies are very similar. i mean, the kinds of things i think the governor will recommend sound like things that are already happening and continuously hearing governor talk he doesn't seem to understand or speak to, you know, with china. it is not just currency manipulation and trade to worry about or deal with china on. it's...
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foreign policy but not criticizing the president's policies while overseas. given all of those constraints what does romney need to do in israel and then starting tomorrow in his trip in poland. >> they chose these countries for specific regions which is to show the strongest possible contrast with president obama on foreign policy. not going to be a huge part of the election but voters need to feel comfortable. romney is out there with all of the trips to say my view is peace through strength, america has to return to a strong leadership position and part of that is we back our allies. he chose israel to go and say the president has lectured israel, i'm not going to do that. he chose poland, the same thing one of the president's first decisions was to pull the plug on the missile defense system eastern europe had been looking for mckinley, to protect it. he will do that and the goal is to go out and say i'm here and i'm going to return us to that traditional standpoint of america strength and backing our al allies. >> chris: how you substantial do you think
foreign policy but not criticizing the president's policies while overseas. given all of those constraints what does romney need to do in israel and then starting tomorrow in his trip in poland. >> they chose these countries for specific regions which is to show the strongest possible contrast with president obama on foreign policy. not going to be a huge part of the election but voters need to feel comfortable. romney is out there with all of the trips to say my view is peace through...
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does romney have to separate himself from the bush policies? >> romney will have his own policies. he just needs to try and be himself. things change in four years. why do you think it is president obama a 51-48. because he is blaming everybody else. bush's fault. the tsunami's fault. you want to look strong. >> the public still thinks that president bush's policies are as much to blame for the economy as president obama. in the polls. >> sounds like it comes across as an excuse and people don't really like people offering excuses. look, i could have done better but it is the guy before me. i said that he was unpatriotic and an unmed kateed disaster but i was wrong it was worse than i thought. i was so stupid i didn't know what to do. this is not a wood message to run on. >> thanks for being here. >> you bet. >> when we come back, dozens of man: 1939 -- my parents ran across an ad for a hot dog cart. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, w
does romney have to separate himself from the bush policies? >> romney will have his own policies. he just needs to try and be himself. things change in four years. why do you think it is president obama a 51-48. because he is blaming everybody else. bush's fault. the tsunami's fault. you want to look strong. >> the public still thinks that president bush's policies are as much to blame for the economy as president obama. in the polls. >> sounds like it comes across as an...
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. >> romney and gingrich are not in office. the israeli thinking -- the israelis could suffer thousands of casualties if lebanon or hezbollah attacks. israelis know all the rest and how short term the advantage would be. the reason they are thinking about this is that for israelis, but the weeks before the 1967 war, israel was abandoned by the whole world. israel had to do preemptive attack. it feels as isolated as back then and will take the same risk. >> politics of birth control and breast cancer. >> this is a violation of the basic rights of conscience. >> this mandate violates our constitution. >> that is house speaker boehner and a cardinal of washington. the obama administration policy requires all employees, including catholic employees, to pay for contraceptive is regardless of the catholic teaching on this issue. the president of the catholic health association supported the president on the health care law. now his critics say that people like that have been hung out to dry. >> this is a dissing, in common parlance,
. >> romney and gingrich are not in office. the israeli thinking -- the israelis could suffer thousands of casualties if lebanon or hezbollah attacks. israelis know all the rest and how short term the advantage would be. the reason they are thinking about this is that for israelis, but the weeks before the 1967 war, israel was abandoned by the whole world. israel had to do preemptive attack. it feels as isolated as back then and will take the same risk. >> politics of birth control...
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. >>> mitt romney is finding out the hard way that honesty is not always the best policy. the man running for president who ran the winter olympics ten years ago gave his blunt assessment of the troubles with the summer games in london. carl cameron tells us such pronouncements are not the britt's cup of tea. >> mitt romney and david cameron met at number 10 downing street. >> it's 1200 people that have seen the torch and meant to go within a mile of 95% of the country. that would be a challenge in the states but in uk, we justify that. >> the night before, romney called news stories about logistical problems disconcerting. >> stories about the private security firm not having enough people, supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials. that obviously is not something which is encouraging. >> asked about that, cameron to some took a shot at the olympics romney ran in salt lake city, utah. >> we're holding an olympic games in one of the busiest, most bustling cities in the world. it's easier if you hold them in the middle of no wear. >> romney special mentioned
. >>> mitt romney is finding out the hard way that honesty is not always the best policy. the man running for president who ran the winter olympics ten years ago gave his blunt assessment of the troubles with the summer games in london. carl cameron tells us such pronouncements are not the britt's cup of tea. >> mitt romney and david cameron met at number 10 downing street. >> it's 1200 people that have seen the torch and meant to go within a mile of 95% of the country....
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do you understand the romney foreign policy? >> yeah -- i'm not a romney -- >> i know you're not. >> but here's the point. the world is better off and america's better off if there's leadership from the united states. >> you think rhetoric matters is what you're saying. the policy differences aren't much. >> might not be material much, but i think u.s. policy, russia, trade is going differ. i think policy in the mideast is different and starting with your friends, working with the industrial democracies, showing leadership is an important ability block that romney is articulating that we're not seeing. >> i'm going to be a cynic here, tough on china talk. every presidential candidate talks tough on china. in office, never as tough as their rhetoric. >> 20 years ago was tough on japan. i think it's -- >> even clinton was going to be tough on china and wasn't. >> sure. he really overshot. he used the butchers of beijing and brought a lot of issues. i think our trade relation with china are generally positive, but there is an area
do you understand the romney foreign policy? >> yeah -- i'm not a romney -- >> i know you're not. >> but here's the point. the world is better off and america's better off if there's leadership from the united states. >> you think rhetoric matters is what you're saying. the policy differences aren't much. >> might not be material much, but i think u.s. policy, russia, trade is going differ. i think policy in the mideast is different and starting with your friends,...
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romney war. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear we've got to get tough, i hear war. surrounded as he is by the same people, i feel war presence is even stronger. and in iraq and afghanistan, do we now want another war and a more islamic country. the implication is that we can commit an all out act of war for actually using the word war. we can attack the nuclear sites and they say uncle and that's the end of it. they won't do anything and if only one or two big ones were left, we could still hit new york, an awful lot of people would be wiped out. consequences, understanding the consequences. that's what foreign policy is all about. war is not a policy. it's a declaration of failure. we have no idea what they plan to do and unleash on gaza, forcing others to knockout the rocket sites in both lands killing any number of civilians. and where would we be then? mr. romney's performance in foreign affairs from clumsy trip to europe where he managed to insult our hosts from the shoot first and ask questions second behavior to
romney war. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear we've got to get tough, i hear war. surrounded as he is by the same people, i feel war presence is even stronger. and in iraq and afghanistan, do we now want another war and a more islamic country. the implication is that we can commit an all out act of war for actually using the word war. we can attack the nuclear sites and they say uncle and that's the end of it. they won't do anything and if...
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i am sure the romney campaign in the wait to see their plan because he had a stellar foreign policy record the. >> he sold that both to you. a sterling record. >> i cannot find osama bin laden. >> why are to you talking about congressman yoder? >> i read that to this morning. it is silly. i don't care that he got to make it. i would go swimming but why did he get so mad? i cannot be on point* with everything. [laughter] is president lack of policy tour and jumping in the sea of galilee. he cheats israel like a fly over. lou: one question on syria with the chemical weapons with the president are you surprised that is of trigger point*? >> a humanitarian crisis, tens of thousands killed we don't know the legitimate government but the president is worried of chemical weapons? and what is the strategy and what do we have a plan to put forth? >> governor romney and paul buy and doing a good job about medicare and entitlements but they are not attacking this record with any great enthusiasm. >> even more and get to know us. of lot of swaps are on their way. and then they will go after the democr
i am sure the romney campaign in the wait to see their plan because he had a stellar foreign policy record the. >> he sold that both to you. a sterling record. >> i cannot find osama bin laden. >> why are to you talking about congressman yoder? >> i read that to this morning. it is silly. i don't care that he got to make it. i would go swimming but why did he get so mad? i cannot be on point* with everything. [laughter] is president lack of policy tour and jumping in the...